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TONY ORTEGA
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[Councilman Mike Mannino gets some pub for his deal with Dave]
It’s always interesting when the national press decides to take a look at Scientology’s actual doings in places like California or Florida, and what a fine job writer Christopher Kuo does for the Wall Street Journal on the situation in Clearwater.
This is a great overview of the recent battle over a downtown street that Clearwater’s beleaguered city council decided to hand over to Scientology leader David Miscavige for his L. Ron Hubbard Hall project that has the town so divided.
The piece looks at the background of that clash, from Scientology’s surreptitious 1975 invasion of the Gulf Coast town, to the Tampa Bay Times investigation by reporter Tracey McManus in 2019 about how Scientology had doubled its footprint downtown by having wealthy church members buy up more properties.
The Journal has to be cautious about suggesting that the church was behind this buying spree, but of course it was.
More recently, it’s been interesting to see the Clearwater council wrestle with Scientology’s ask for a portion of South Garden Avenue, and the way councilman David Allbritton temporarily opposed the request.
And now, the Journal provides some revealing new information about how Allbritton decided to get the state’s new attorney general, James Uthmeier, involved, because Scientology asked him to:
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[Councilman Mike Mannino gets some pub for his deal with Dave]
It’s always interesting when the national press decides to take a look at Scientology’s actual doings in places like California or Florida, and what a fine job writer Christopher Kuo does for the Wall Street Journal on the situation in Clearwater.
This is a great overview of the recent battle over a downtown street that Clearwater’s beleaguered city council decided to hand over to Scientology leader David Miscavige for his L. Ron Hubbard Hall project that has the town so divided.
The piece looks at the background of that clash, from Scientology’s surreptitious 1975 invasion of the Gulf Coast town, to the Tampa Bay Times investigation by reporter Tracey McManus in 2019 about how Scientology had doubled its footprint downtown by having wealthy church members buy up more properties.
The Journal has to be cautious about suggesting that the church was behind this buying spree, but of course it was.
More recently, it’s been interesting to see the Clearwater council wrestle with Scientology’s ask for a portion of South Garden Avenue, and the way councilman David Allbritton temporarily opposed the request.
And now, the Journal provides some revealing new information about how Allbritton decided to get the state’s new attorney general, James Uthmeier, involved, because Scientology asked him to:
READ MORE
Wall Street Journal looks at Scientology's grip on Clearwater
It’s always interesting when the national press decides to take a look at Scientology’s actual doings in places like California or Florida, and what a fine job writer Christopher Kuo does for the Wall Street Journal on the situation in Clearwater.
tonyortega.substack.com
